Tom Cruise Blamed For L.A. Bomb Scare

The Associated Press reports that a newspaper rack was blown up by a police bomb squad after someone mistook a device rigged to promote Tom Cruise's new "Mission Impossible" movie for an actual bomb.

"A newspaper promotion for 'Mission: Impossible III' got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.

The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the 'Mission: Impossible' theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers.

Times officials said the devices were placed in 4,500 randomly selected news boxes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties in a venture with Paramount Pictures designed to turn the everyday news rack experience into an extraordinary mission.

The devices are to remain in the boxes until May 7, two days after the film is scheduled to open."

In other Cruise news... Katie Holmes' husband has decided that his wife shall go by 'Kate' instead, because Katie sounds too young for him.

What a tool.